Styles touched it to Kane who trapped it with his studs and then rolled it backwards for Styles who was running round him. Has the linesman given Styles offside coming back despite the ball not going forward?
I thought that was a strange decision, if the ball does not go forward, it can't be offside. Nevertheless, the ball should have just been put into the area...
Most baffling decision I’ve seen. Pathetic. Their goal didn’t come long after what I thought was a perfect tackle from James which the ref ended up booking him for. Fine margins.
I think there's confusion: You can be offside if the ball moves backwards You can't be offside not if you're behind the ball (see the second bullet point). Edited in: normally when the ball goes backwards the player who receives the ball is also behind the ball. Styles wasn't. https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside#:~:text=A player is in an,and the second-last opponent
Not sure that was the case. Was an awful, awful decision by the linesman that defies the basic rules of the game, and a really well worked corner on our part. We’d had no joy punting it in to the box so mixing it up had opened up a great crossing position for Kane. Shame we couldn’t see that move through but another great example of us being far more than a hoof ball team. * Edit - seems those ‘basic rules of the game’ are actual rules in Plankton’s post. Hanging my head in shame. Still never offside.
It was the correct decision for these reasons. It's a pretty rare circumstance for someone to be offside from a backward pass but if the receiving player is ahead of the ball when it is played backwards then he is offside.
2 poor decisions really, one by the linesman and one by us deciding not to just get it into the area with a normal bloody corner!
Nice one PP. I thought I knew the rules. Then I thought I didn't after all. Now I think I did after all, after all.
Wow - thanks PP, I wasn't aware. Effectively this means that if defenders stand a yard off the line the corner taker cannot be involved again in a short corner routine until the next phase of play. Stupid rule though imo......
Not if he had already run behind the ball before it was played to him and its not really a stupid rule it just needs the players to be aware that not all defences put men on the post
Norwich commentators reckoned that Kane hadn't touched the ball so therefore Styles had touched it twice
Nobody has mentioned the fact the despite Styles telling the linesman, the Norwich player who was only 5 yards away wasn't moved beck which subsequently caused the "offside". Had he been 10 yards back, they wouldn't have been pressured into it.
For the benefit of those of us who didn't see the incident, would someone be kind enough to draw a diagram please? I'm really struggling here.